Housing history reminds us that what we tolerate is a choice. Future generations will judge us by the housing conditions we normalize.

Reforms didn’t happen because conditions were merely unfortunate, they happened when they became politically unacceptable. That’s a core ESCR lesson.

These conditions closely align with today’s right to housing standards: affordability, habitability, access to services, and security of tenure.

In this apartment a family of five Irish immigrants lived in an apartment with just a small bedroom and a living room. The children would often sleep on the roof of the building.

The tenements documents overcrowding, insecurity, and unsafe living conditions—realities that were treated as normal for working-class and immigrant communities.

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@carladenyer.bsky.social What does the Green Party think about introducing housing as a human right into UK law?